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Plastic Shed Repair

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Best way to repair the top of this plastic shed? It's the roof peak that folds over but the seam has torn apart at both ends during transportation. It's hanging on at the centre and the two sides leave a gap that doesn't want to come back together without some force.
 
I have a plastic shed that I suspect is very similar to yours. The folded corners of the wall are only one thickness unlike the majority of the double sided blown structure. Those corner folds cracked out on me for no good obvious reason. I bent a 90° corner out of 20 gauge sheet metal that covered the corner from floor to roof. I then screwed that directly to the walls. I then loaded the floor I made and building attached to it on a flat deck and moved it 5 miles down the road. It handled the move and it has been a fix for it.
I think I'd do a similar fix for your roof but put the new metal piece over the outside top.
 
I'd make some staples from stainless wire and melt them in across the seams for structural support. Then get some sheet metal to cap the entire seam and glue it down. I'm not sure what kid of adhesive to use for this, but I'm 100% sure there's something out there that would do it better than mechanical fasteners.

These are the kinds of staples I'm talking about.
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You can buy the kits and heat tool, but I made my own from stainless safety wire. I just bent them with pliers and used a torch to heat them up enough to press in. I repaired my recycling bins 2 years ago now, and they've held up pretty good. A few spots need them done again, and some new spots too, but I doubt your shed would get tossed around and abused by the recycling guys like my bins do.
 
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